Institute of Museum and Library Services 2020 Grants to States All States Conference May
13, 2020 Virtual Proceedings by: CASET Associates, Ltd. caset@caset.net
Agenda Item: Conference Wrap-Up and Closing Remarks
MS.
DEVOE: Thanks, Michele, and thanks to all our presenters today.
That was such a wonderful presentation from all of your on the ground experiences, trying
to live through both disasters of yore and our current pandemic.
We’re going to bring up our conference wrap-up and closing remarks slide deck.
We’re going to roll right into the session even though it’s not 4:40, we’re going
to just keep going and you’ll probably get some time back for your day.
We have a few reminders as we’re changing out the slide decks.
First of all, I’m going to put up a conference survey while I make some of my
announcements so that you have time to sort of grab the link.
It’s clickable apparently, from within Adobe Connect.
And we also have a QR code on the screen and our producer is sending out the link as well.
So during this time as we’re wrapping up we would love for you to just go ahead and
take the survey around the conference and how you felt about it while it’s really
fresh in your mind.
So I’m just going to talk a little bit announcement style for a while as you’re bringing that
up.
We will also send out this link following the conference through an email so that those
that aren’t tuned in right at this moment also have a chance to respond to it.
So just some reminders, we’re going to be following up on any questions that were asked
during the course of the presentations that we didn’t have time to answer during the
presentation, or for whatever reason we didn’t get to answer them.
We are in the process of already sending recognition certificates to those states who got shout
outs yesterday, so we will, if you have not already received them, we will be sending
those to you.
We still have a few presentations that have not made it into our website.
It was deliberate on our part so that you would have more of a surprise aspect to the
states’ presentations today.
And so we will be filling in those gaps over the next few days.
And then the recordings from all of the presentations, I don’t have a time frame yet, but we will
get those up and link to the website as soon as we can.
They have to go through a process so that they’re accessible and they meet all of
the federal requirements, so do give us a little time, but we will get those recordings
up very shortly.
Speaking of recordings, in my first presentation yesterday, I mentioned that there would be
tomorrow a webinar on our CARES Act discretionary grants that are newly available.
There is a webinar available at 2:00 PM eastern, and we’ve learned that it has reached capacity
at this point, but if you were still hoping to register and get in on that, don’t worry,
we’re going to have the recording up for that one posted shortly after the fact as
well.
So even if you can’t get into the registration at this point, know that that will be posted
shortly.
There was some mention in the chat during one of the breaks about how nice it would
have been if all of the attendees could have had their cameras on and have a way to interact
with each other.
We didn’t try to press our luck with that during these two days, but we do have additional
technology available, and we have already thought it would be really nice to get all
the LSTA coordinators together that would like to and have a very informal gathering,
which is optional, there won’t be any critical information shared at that gathering, it will
just be a way for you to get together, and we would be happy to facilitate that.
So we’re going to give you a little breather between all the conference content that you’ve
been sitting through this week, and some time, so we will let you know once we get a date
and a time set for that, and we will see how it goes.
It will be a trial run.
I want to say a few thank you’s.
And so I’m going to move off of this screen right now, but you have the Survey Monkey
link in your questions area.
In addition to connecting with each other, we did not have a chance for you to connect
with your program officer as we traditionally do when we’re at an in-person conference,
and so we didn’t have those office hours.
But the good news is that the in person office hours were only ever ten minutes by necessity,
and so we have an opportunity now again with some of our technology available to us for
you to each out to your program officer and setup a time of your choosing and setup a
length of your choosing, you probably need a half hour to check in with your program
officer, but if you want a little more time we’ll accommodate that.
So we’ll set it up as you reach out to us, but we would love to connect with you.
And of course Dennis is still on paternity leave, but we expect him back in the month
of June, and so if you have a burning desire to meet in person before June comes then if
you’re one of Dennis’s states you can reach out to me, and I will setup some office
hours with you.
We have some thank you’s.
Making this program happen, it’s not just the Grants to States staff, although they
are super instrumental in pulling this all this together, and it’s not just Matt and
Lisa, our wonderful speakers from the Office of Impact Assessment and Learning.
We had a couple of executive sponsors who gave us the blessing to go ahead and have
this conference, both when it was in person, and that is a much more expensive proposition
that comes out of our administrative budget and we have to justify it every year, and
now that it’s virtual it still has some costs attached to it, so we’re so thankful
to Cyndee and to Scott for believing in us and allowing us to have this conference, which
we know is so important.
We had contract support, certainly in the lead up to the in-person conference and then
when it pivoted and we had to go virtual, so Chris Mettee was busy making all of the
paperwork happen for us.
And of course we never put any slides up on the web that have anything legal in them at
all unless they’ve been reviewed by our legal team, and in particular, Cam Trowbridge
was wonderful in turning this around really quickly with everything on their legal plate
right now with all the CARES Act things that are happening.
And I didn’t put our webmaster Talisa Parker on this slide, but she always turns around
the content super fast so that once we have slide decks ready that they are ready for
your consumption.
So we thank her, too.
We have so many awesome volunteers from the states to help us have today’s content.
So thank you.
I know not all of you are still on the call, but to Natalie Cole, Jen Nelson, Catherine
Prince, Abi Waldrupe, Mary Soucie, Peggy Cadigan, Eileen Morales, Michael Dennison and Cindy
Fesemyer, really awesome explanations of the kinds of projects that you’re doing with
discretionary funding, and just giving people a window into what that looks like.
We also thank our latest three speakers, Rob Favini, Denise Lyons, and Mark Smith for their
just invaluable perspectives on disaster preparedness.
And we look forward to putting both of these groups’ slide decks up on the website so
that you can revisit them.
And I see that we have some FEMA information that has already gone out through the chat.
So they’re already sharing additional valuable information.
We have a team behind the scenes that helped us with our virtual support, and goodness
knows we would not have been able to do this without them.
So to Steph Hines and Matt Burdetsky from Capital Meeting Planning, thank you so much
for making this possible for us, and to our Envolvemedia producer Mitchell Jun, who has
just been running the show like a champ and coaching us through all the intricacies of
Adobe Connect, which for many of us with little experience in this platform we are so grateful
for them, high fives all around.
And last but not least, we thank you for hanging in there with us in a new and different format
this year.
We were not hoping that we would have to do a conference like this, but now that we have,
your presence and your questions have made this conference a success in our book.
And so we thank you, we look forward to being together with you in the future, in person
like we traditionally do, and until then may you be healthy, may you be safe, and may you
continue being superheroes in your communities.
Thanks everyone.
This concludes the conference.
(Conference adjourned at 4:40 p.m.)